In the first year of Xingping (194 AD), Cao Cao sent troops to Xuzhou for the second time, and shortly after he left Xuzhou, Chen Gong rebelled with Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao brothers, and welcomed Lu Bu into Yanzhou, and the whole territory responded for a time. And Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, and Xiahoudun worked hard to defend, and finally kept Juancheng, Fanxian, and Dong'e. At the same time, Cao Cao, who was fighting in Xuzhou, also encountered a dilemma - Liu Bei rushed to the rescue.

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Xuzhou, a suburb of Tancheng, Cao Jun camp.

"My lord! Yanzhou must not be saved. Li Dian said.

Originally, Cao Cao also intended to withdraw his troops, but at this time, Tian Kai, Liu Bei and Cao Bao garrisoned around Tancheng and blocked the way back. As to whether to continue to attack Tao Qian or retreat, the opinions in the army were extremely unanimous, so Cao Cao summoned the generals to discuss together, but the situation seemed to be the same, each with his own opinion.

"Yanzhou is in chaos, if you don't save it, it's better to continue to attack Xuzhou. Such a rich land is ten times better than Yanzhou. Cao Hong was quite opposed to Li Dian's words.

"Although Yanzhou is broken, it is still our foundation, is it a bit hasty to give up like this. If Xuzhou can't be captured, we will have nowhere to stay. "Yu Ban can maintain absolute sanity at all times.

"Tao Qian has no fierce generals and wise men, and it is easy to attack him." Cao Ren naturally agreed with Cao Hong's opinion.

"But our army's food and grass are indeed not sufficient, and now that our army has penetrated deep into the enemy county, if it is really besieged by Tao Qian from all sides, it will be difficult to run at that time." Lejin was also a little hesitant.

"What's so difficult about this, we plundered grain and grass in Xuzhou, and used the capital of the land to enrich our army and attack its land, and we can use the grain in Xuzhou." Xiahou Yuan is very thoughtful.

Looking at the generals in the tent fighting for red faces, and then looking at Cao Cao, who was always expressionless and didn't say a word, Duan Xuan shook his head helplessly and moved his gaze to Nie Hong.

As the supreme commander of the Qingzhou Army, Nie Hong will of course attend this kind of military meeting. It's just that he always thinks that he is a general, and under normal circumstances, he only listens and doesn't speak.

"General Nie, what do you think?" Duan Xuan didn't want him to be so out of place all the time, so he deliberately called him loudly. When all the generals heard Duan Xuan's words, they stopped arguing and their eyes fell on Nie Hong.

"Military advisor, what the generals said makes sense, I'm just a martial artist, and I don't understand this strategy." Nie Hong was still reluctant to say more.

"Young Duo," Cao Cao said for the first time, and called Nie Hong's words, "You don't need to worry, since you came to our army, you are also a brother like everyone else, if I, Cao Cao, really treat you as an outsider, how can I let you participate in the military council?" What do you think, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

"My lord," Nie Hong said, "whether you retreat or continue to capture Xuzhou, there is a reason. I really don't understand the strategy, but if I can, I hope that the lord can send me down to do something. ”

"What?"

"Please allow me to lead 50,000 elite soldiers to rush back to Yanzhou immediately to rescue Xun Yu and others. While we were arguing here, Lu Bu might have already captured Juancheng and the other three counties. ”

Nie Hong's words silenced everyone. Yes, everyone only cared about attacking and retreating, but they forgot that Xun Yu and the others were already in a hurry.

"Youduo, you said something to my liking." Cao Cao said with a smile.

"Actually, General Yu Ban is right," Duan Xuan could certainly guess what Cao Cao meant, since Cao Cao didn't say it, then he had to say, "Although our army is embarrassed at this time, after all, it has not reached the embattled situation, so why bother with it." ”

Then, Duan Xuan bowed his hand to Cao Cao and said: "Lord, I will lead people out of the camp tonight to prepare, and tomorrow the army will bypass Tancheng and withdraw to Yanzhou to stabilize the situation." ”

"Strategist, let me help." Nie Hong had some understanding of Duan Xuan's style of acting, so naturally he wouldn't let him go out by himself.

"Hehe, thank you General Nie, there are not many people below, but there is indeed one person who wants to ask the general to borrow it." Duan Xuan smiled mysteriously.

"Who?"

"One of your subordinates, I'm afraid that the general won't borrow it." Duan Xuan took a step forward as he spoke, staring at Nie Hong with his eyes.

Nie Hong vaguely knew who he was going to talk about, so he sighed slightly and said, "It turned out to be him." Well, I'll call him to you when I get back. ”

Duan Xuan looked at Cao Cao again and asked with his gaze.

Cao Cao nodded, he knew Duan Xuan's talent, of course, there was no need to ask more about his plan. Then, Cao Cao suddenly turned to look at Dian Wei beside him, "Why don't you tell me what you think?" ”

"The march and battle are handed over to the generals, and I only take care of the lord." Dian Wei said solemnly.

"Hahaha, you have to worry about it. Okay, then you can always be by my side tomorrow. ”

"The last will obey." Dian Wei responded.

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The wind at night was still very strong, and the weather was still cold, although Duan Xuan covered his face with a black veil, he could still feel the pain of being scraped on his cheeks by a knife.

He looked at the big man beside him. This is the person he borrowed from Nie Hong - Nie Hong's personal guard, who is rumored to be the most powerful person in the Qingzhou army and the head of the four major divisions under Nie Hong.

Finding that Duan Xuan was looking at himself, the big man was slightly surprised, "Strategist, is there something wrong?" ”

The big man's voice was low, and his mood was not revealed, and Duan Xuan was also a little curious about how Nie Hong chose him.

"Oh, it's nothing, but I remember, I don't know your name yet."

"My name is Xu Chu, and my name is Zhongkang."

"Brother Xu, we're here." Duan Xuan stopped.

Xu Chu also stopped and looked ahead suspiciously. They came out of the east side of the camp and made a big circle before coming to the north side of Tancheng. There was no longer a shadow of the city and the garrison here, and at the same time, Xu Chu also knew the purpose of Duan Xuan's call to come - to move stones.

Duan Xuan asked him to pick up the big stones that had rolled down from the hillside, and he had picked up more than fifty of them, neatly arranging them in a circle. Duan Xuan couldn't help but admire Xu Chu's physical strength, after he finished moving, he didn't even breathe.

Next, Duan Xuan took out hundreds of iron rings, and he asked Xu Chu to fix these iron rings on the stone. Although the iron ring is not big, it is still troublesome to fix, but fortunately, there is Xu Chu, one by one, and he slapped it into the gap of the stone.

When all the preparations were completed, Xu Chu followed Duan Xuan back to the Cao army camp.

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The next day, when Liu Bei learned that Cao Cao had withdrawn his troops, he felt that he should let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei lead his troops to chase after him. Because Liu Bei knew that Cao Cao would never leave because of himself, something must have happened to his Yanzhou.

When he came to the stone formation arranged by Duan Xuan, Cao Cao found that Duan Xuan was sitting in the center of the stone formation, surrounded by a circle of stones arranged in a very regular manner.

Cao Cao nodded at Duan Xuan, and then led the army to continue the march west.

At this time, the pursuers behind also arrived. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei stopped their troops in front of the stone formation, looked inside the stone formation, and were very puzzled by Duan Xuan's move.

"Second brother, this person is dressed strangely, be careful of his tricks." As he spoke, Zhang Fei nodded at the eighteen horsemen of Yanyun behind him, and six of them slowly drove their horses into the stone formation.

Duan Xuan seemed to be a stone, motionless. It wasn't until they had walked past the second circle of stones that Duan Xuan opened his eyes.

"Withdraw!" When Zhang Fei saw those eyes, he instantly shouted, because he was all too familiar with that kind of look - the fierce light of a hungry tiger pounced.

Duan Xuan got up suddenly, and moved as if he was dancing. The next moment, a scream came, and the bodies of the six people were as if they had been cut by a big knife, and the severed limbs kept falling to the ground.

In just a few moments, the six of them were divided into sections.

Zhang Fei's eyes were full of annoyance, he stared at Duan Xuan deadly, stretched out his trembling hand, and stopped the rest of the people who were about to charge.

"Your Excellency is so obscene!" Zhang Fei shouted, he didn't wear a fake beard today, but now he is more fierce than with it.

Duan Xuan sighed, and his hands slowly began to remove the black veil from his head.

When the black veil completely fell, Zhang Fei was surprised to find that he knew this face.

Duan Xuan smiled at Zhang Fei, "Mr. Zhang, don't come unharmed." ”

"Brother Duan, I don't want you to be Cao Cao's subordinate, and Zhang Mou will treat you as a friend in vain."

"Time is also fate, life is in the world, and the body is involuntarily. I don't want to meet again today, and I'm already an enemy. Alas...... Duan was fortunate to invite Mr. Zhang to appreciate the painting. As he spoke, he motioned to Zhang Fei to look at the severed limbs and blood on the ground, which was the painting he had made for this troubled world.

"Second brother, this person has some relationship with me, leave it to me." Zhang Fei said with some loss.

"Then the third brother be careful."

Zhang Fei agreed, and walked slowly towards the stone formation.

Duan Xuan's eyes were also unbearable, so he wanted to stop him, "Sir, stay here, there should not be a painter's blood in this painting." ”

Brother Duan also knows that Zhang also has some understanding of painting. Your painting is too feminine, let Zhang add a few strokes of grandeur to you. As he said these words, Zhang Fei had already arrived next to the stone formation, he held the Zhangba Snake Spear tightly in his right hand, lowered his head, and sighed slightly.

In the next moment, he roared like a beast and exploded rapidly, and the spear forged in fine iron seemed to lose its weight, and was thrown from side to side like a whip by him.

Duan Xuan immediately understood what he was going to do, and couldn't help but secretly admire.

It turned out that Zhang Fei stared at those severed limbs carefully, and found that the incisions were too neat, so he guessed that it might be a silk weapon, and then looked at the iron rings on the stones, and the few silk threads with blood beads hanging from the extremely inconspicuous, Zhang Fei immediately understood Duan Xuan's tricks, so he chose to directly and fundamentally solve this Yin Damage weapon.

Duan Xuan was naturally very sorry, and after spending half a day's effort, he didn't get rid of too many enemy troops.

Zhang Fei had already walked to Duan Xuan's side at this time, and the two looked at each other like this.

Suddenly, Duan Xuan's right hand jerked to the left, and it turned out that he still had a thread that had not been discovered, which was connected to the ground in front of him from his right hand. When his hand was down, even if Zhang Fei walked over it, he couldn't tell the difference. Now that he is so close to Zhang Fei, there is no reason for this line to fail.

The cold light hit Zhang Fei's left side, Zhang Fei was expressionless, and he held the spear in his left hand and pushed it, blocking the silk thread, while grabbing Duan Xuan's right arm with his right hand. This kind of swift reaction speed is enough to make ordinary generals unmatched.

Zhang Fei looked down at Duan Xuan and said slowly: "Let Zhang also make a painting for Brother Duan." ”